Diane Keaton quotes:

My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,' she reflects. 'He was right. It took me 50 years to find motherhood and unconditional love.'

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.

I drink red wine on ice to water it down.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets.

I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.

My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.

Relationships are hard. You're lucky if you find someone.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

My thinking about plastic surgery is this. I haven't had it, but never say never. Because when you do, you are definitely going to go there.

I've done all kinds of things I said I wouldn't do and, of course, now I'm glad. Thrilled.

I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night.

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring.

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

...I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That's what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do.

I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right.

Its the journey that counts, not the arrival.

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They can be unbelievably effective.

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.

As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away.

I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.

Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren't looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary

I was cast in this commercial called "Hour After Hour." It was for a deodorant that won't wear off. And [Susan Sarandon] became the Hour After Hour girl after me. But I never met her. So I didn't really know Susan till after this movie [ "The Big Wedding"].

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Robert De Niro, even though I've been in two other movies with him, I never really got to know him at all. But on this movie ["The Big Wedding"] I did.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

I have a policy about fear: It cripples the soul, so you just have to fight it.

Robert De Niro is just evolved as a human being. He's a very kind guy. Age has been good for him, in terms of just, he's very kind.

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.

Robin Williams, another person I didn't know. He is genuinely hilarious.

When I was young, I wanted my appearance to be more interesting than what surrounded me. Now the body part I like best is my eyes, because they bring beauty to me.

The thing is, though, that some of these people are my age, right? And I didn't know them. I didn't know Susan Sarandon. I mean, I'd seen her.

What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.

We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.

What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity ...

I'm proud of "Shoot the Moon."

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

What I like about that is it kind of puts you in your place. Don't count on being remembered. Just live now, you know?

[Women photographers] provide an inspiring reminder to all women that the choice to see, or be seen, is ours. We live in a culture in which this decision is undermined by the notion that the single most valuable contribution a woman can make is to be visually attractive. Women photographers make a strong case for seeing and an even stronger case for recording what you see.

Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.

I don't think so much anymore. When you're younger, and at your height, then people want you to do that great one again. But seriously, things are forgotten, and that's the truth.

I do believe in saving shoes. But that does not make me a hoarder. I am not a hoarder. But why not save them? Styles come back.

Somehow weddings bring out the most insane moments in people's lives.

My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.

I rarely get the "Annie Hall" references other than from people who are aficionados of movies, people who really care about movies. But in general, people don't even think about it.

Life is short and experiences with remarkable people are rare.

The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness

By the way, everybody approaches acting differently. Like, I'm kind of sloppy and I like it kind of loose. I like to kind of play around. Some people don't.

That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.

Stephen Shadley is a great collaborator. Over the years I've seen him work with a wide variety of clients and stylistic approaches. He listens to people in a way that makes them feel like they're part of the process. Steve is an inspiration on all fronts, and, believe me, that's a rare quality.

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

acting is a wild ride, shared in the company of other actors.

Thanksgiving isn't the only thing that has changed. This makes it reassuring somehow to go through the same ritual with the people you're connected to. I guess the truth is, it all boils down to family. Right?

Working with Nancy Meyers ("Something's Gotta Give") and ... Charles Shyer ("Father of the Bride"), and I'm proud of "Reds," and I'm proud of my movies with Woody (Allen).

It's not fun to see myself in the mirror.

Working with Jack [Nicholson] is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon.

I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it.

There are a lot of movies I feel good about. It was a great experience that I was lucky enough to be there in it. That's the way I feel.

I hadn't been that impressed with someone since I worked with Meryl Streep.

I've never really looked back.

Being a movie star is a rare job. Nobody gives you any guarantees that you'll get to do it forever. It's a very lucky and privileged position to be in.

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

I don't carry little purses. I carry big duffels, always.

It's very odd, being older, because in a way it's hard to own the past, even.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

You don't really think about [career] much, because in a way it seems like another time and a different person.

I'm a lot of fun on a date.

I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.

Some people say they're retired and it means they have time to do things they want to do. I have always had the privilege to engage in my hobbies as if they were work. And they are. So hobbies are work, but work that you want to do; they are play. Retirement? That sounds like you're going to passively walk into the sunset and disappear.

What's interesting about Topher [Grace] to me was, he's playing a 29-year-old virgin, which was really kind of hard for me to believe in real life, you get my drift? I mean, that was really not possible. And somehow he pulled it off.

My daughter fell in love with Ben Barnes, of course. She's 17. What are you gonna do? That was a tragic loss. He didn't fall in love with her.

Amanda (Seyfried) has this dog that goes everywhere with her.

Katherine Heigl, she was exactly the opposite of what I thought she'd be like. She smokes cigarettes, or she did then, and she's got a truck-driver's mouth, and she's really funny.

With Robert De Niro, you're thinking, suddenly he'll do something you don't expect, or he appears and he's kind of slow to get there but then he gets there in a way that nobody does. Everybody is just really, extremely different.

[Topher Grace] is thought about what he's going to do and he has a lot of ideas. So there's that.

Topher Grace is a really smart guy, and he really thinks about [acting].

I have younger kids, and I adopted them late in life. They don't know these people [from Annie Hall] at all.

There's also a certain segment that doesn't know what "Annie Hall" is. Seriously, it's true.

I don't want to watch [films I was acting in]. I've had enough of me.